March 2010 Blog Posts (6)

In what is being called the first ever of its kind in New York City, Livable Streets Education teamed up with Community Roots Cha rter School and PS 67 and got a helping hand from New York Cares and The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership to paint a magnificent street mural on St. Edwards Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The project, which was designed by art students, was done with the blessing of NYC… Continue

Community collaboration between the Poughkeepsie Farm Project (including the Main Street Farmers' Market), high school students, and Dutchess Community College students and professors --

One Saturday yielded 7 designs for the Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market, including market stalls, a pavilion and stage, when 36 area high school students interested in architecture focused their creative attention on the Poughkeepsie Farm Project-managed…

Those were just some of the topics young people brought up this week during the first gathering of City of Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik's Mayor's Youth Council, which is set to meet again March 23. "We want young people to know they also have a voice here in the city," Tkazyik said. "And it's an opportunity for us to
listen to them and for them to express themselves." Officials…

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Allie Bernhard and I'm a senior at SUNY New Paltz. I am interning at Hudson River Housing with Elizabeth, and am working mostly on Middle Main. I am a Sociology major with a concentration in Human Services, and for my thesis paper, I've decided to pick a topic that was somehow related to community development, since I know that this is the type of work that I want to do. After mulling it over, I finally came up with a topic, inequality in… Continue